1952-09-19 ( 72 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, record producer and composer. The co-founder of Chic, Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a three-time Grammy Award-winner, and the chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Known for his "chucking" guitar style, Rolling Stone wrote in 2014 that "the full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom".
Formed as the Big Apple Band in 1972 with bassist Bernard Edwards, Chic released their self-titled debut album in 1977, including the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and "Everybody Dance". The 1978 album C'est Chic produced the hits "I Want Your Love" and "Le Freak", with the latter selling more than seven million singles worldwide. The song "Good Times" from the 1979 album Risqué was a number one single on the pop and soul charts, and became one of the most-sampled songs of all time, "ushering in" hip-hop via the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", inspiring Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", and anchoring the Daft Punk hit "Around the World".
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Movies
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
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Avicii - I'm Tim
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Disco’s Revenge
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ABBA: Against the Odds
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Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023-04-11
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022-12-24
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
2022-09-03
If These Walls Could Sing
2022-09-03
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
2022-06-16
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
2020-09-09
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019-11-09
Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
2018-12-19
Studio 54
2018-06-15
Avicii: True Stories
2017-10-26
George Michael: Freedom
2017-10-16
Duran Duran: Paper Gods Japan Tour
2017-09-20
Molly: The Real Thing
2016-02-21
Daft Punk Unchained
2015-06-24
Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker
2015-04-25
Breaking a Monster
2015-03-14
Cerrone
2015-02-23
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
2014-11-04
Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic
2014-08-30
What Difference Does It Make?
2014-02-17
Finding the Funk
2014-01-31
David Bowie: Five Years
2013-05-25
Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker
2013-03-29
Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6
2013-01-01
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
2011-09-23
Chic: Live at the Budokan
2009-10-15
Coming Back for More
2009-01-23
Chic: Le Freak - Live
2006-06-06
Disco: Spinning The Story
2005-06-07
Live Aid
2004-11-16
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002-01-09
A Diva's Christmas Carol
2000-12-13
Wild Boys: The Story of Duran Duran
2000-08-28
Curves Contours & Body Horns
1993-12-12
Live Aid
1985-07-13
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